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The college NeWs
VOL. XL, NO. 26
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1944
Coj yrif hi, Truat. i � of
Bryn M.w. Coll,,. 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
War Bond Drive
Launched to Pay
Debt on Wyndham
Home Built by Quakeress
Purchased by College
During 1925
In 1796, Patience Morgan, "a
thrifty Quakeress," built Wynd-
ham. Years later, Dr. Joseph
Taylor, looking for suitable sur-
roundings and an advantageous
site for the new Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, chose the hilltops and slopes
to the west. There Bryn Mawr
has grown up for fifty-nine years
with two generations of students
taking the gracious old place
across the way for granted.
Suddenly, in the summer of
1925, Wyndham was offered for
sale. The Directors were faced
with the prospect of having the
place fall into the hands of a
real estate developer who had
rather wild ideas for the property,
including something which sounds
Tather like a housing development
to lure people away from the
streets of Philadelphia. Rows and
rows of little houses would have
faced Pembroke and Rockefeller,
with cars, screaming children,
garbage trucks, and broken toys
adding to the melee. Gone would
have been the dance club produc-
tions, the Senior garden party,
the picnics and the numerous teas
in the pleasant setting of Wynd-
ham Garden; gone, too, would have
been the ideal home for the French
House.
This was not all. Enterprising
real estate developers had other
ideas. They proposed to build a
restaurant where the college
greenhouse now stands, and,
worse, an open-air movie house
near it, and what might have ac-
Conttnued on page 3
New Literary Effort
Proves Creative Art
Not Dead on Campus
Specially Contributed by
--, Virginia Grace, '44
This coming week will record
the launching of a new Bryn
Mawr magazine. It has been in-
cubating in the minds of five un-
daunted Freshmen, who will tell
you vehemently, and now we must
believe them, that creative art on
campus is not dead. A sceptical
student body has been reading a
sober but somewhat perfunctory
funeral service over the flickering
Lantern, but it may now be in-
formed that the challenge it threw
out for a new and representative
periodical has found its mark. If
every healthy display of discon-
tent could produce such prompt
and unequivocal results, any signs
of ferment would be heartily wel-
comed.
The new magazine bears on its
cover the words The Title, sig-
nifying that the space is reserved
for a permanent name to be
chosen by its circulating public.
Mr. W. H. Auden has sent his
own ammunition in the form of
a poem entitled In War Time, com-
posed especially for The Title's
maiden issue. Mr. Lattimore's
superb translation of two Aeschy-
lean speeches brings the beauty of
ancient literature into the range
of modern study.
Hester Corner contributes a
provocative piece entitled Monu-
ments and Memorials of Balti-
more, a poem showing an amazing
facility of expression. Mr. Huf-
fington, by Jocelyn Kingsbury, is
a masterful sketch of the quiet
sort of crisis that lingers longest
in one's memory. It is written
with an easy assurance and with
acute sensitivity to dramatic tim-
ing as well as to mood and sound.
"Passage to India" carries out
Continued on Page 7
Mademoiselle, Vogue Pass by Bryn Moron's
Originality in the Designing of College Fashions
Life has its features on high
school fashions. Mademoiselle and
Vogue talk lovingly of the newest
things in college clothes�but
they've all passed us by. And now
is the time for us to assert our-
selves: What the well-dressed
Bryn Moron is wearing, or, kow
to get dressed so they'll let you
into the dining room without your
being uncomfortable.
To begin with, originality may
be the keynote of some campuses,
but we manage to remain individ-
ual by being monotonous. 'The
popularity of the Maids' Bureau
pinafores has reached such propor-
tions that no longer do two owners
of the same creation slink behind
the nearest cherry tree rather
than meet each other jumper to
jumper. Whole bevies of identi-
cally dressed classmates trail up
to Taylor arm in arm�but, in the
words of Mr. Patterson, the mass
of material varies as the densities
of the owners.
The latest costume for labside
wear consists of blue jeans, cut off
at the knees, the after-effects of
such an operation being truly sig-
nificant in relation to character
study. All types of half-hitch
britches result, from those volum-
inous pleated affairs that billow
in the breeze, to the rather snug
ones that couldn't ripple in a hur-
ricane. With them, in all cases,
are featured thigh-length men's
shirts�a pre-war fashion which,
rather than being lessened by the
war-time material conservation
act, has been increased as we rob
our soldier's civilian wmrdTobe.
Moccasins, which have long since
taken the place of dirty saddle
shoes, are worn with ingenious
patriotic patches of white adhesive
tape or with open toes and bow-
tied bandages to diminish the flap-
�M^of disembodied soles. The
infliMice of the Good Neighbor
policy is evident with the appear-
ance of non-rationed espadrilles
and huaraches, worn with Mexican
skirts and blouses. Even Tahitian
and Hawaiian touches appear,
blazing forth in irregular bursts
of color, with blouses tied in a
midriff knot above the waist for
greater sun exposure.
L85 skirts, on the other hand,
may be designed for pencil-slim
hips, but we manage a charming
bulging effect by wearing them
over shorts or rolled slacks. And
if you've noticed a strip-tease ses-
sion in the halls in the evening, it
merely means *hat dinner's over,
and we can uncover the uniforms
of a strictly utilitarian and com-
fortable life.
We are neater now, though.
Sweaters are not quite the man-
sized editions of a few years ago,
even if none of us are the Lana
Turner type. Or maybe it's just
that we'd rather wear the shirts�
thigh-length.
Eleanor Borden, '46" as Louise, and Esterlee Hutzler, '45 as
Kodrigo, dancing in one of the opening scenes of the play.
Expressive Character Interpretations
Mark Dance Portrayal of 'Rodrigo'
Close Brazilian Ties
Seen by Paul Jones
Common Room, May 14. Paul
Jones, chief advisor to Nelson
Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-
American Affairs, spoke on the
present situation in Latin Amer-
ica, dwelling chiefly on Bolivia
and the Argentine.
Argentina, the most advanced
of the Latin American countries
in economic, political, and social
development, presents a "compli-
cated situation." United States'
public opinion usually dismisses
Argentina as a fascist nation in-
tent on extending the rule of Hit-
ler, but Mr. Jones attributed this
to a misapprehension built on a
difference of political objectives in
the two countries. The present
isolationist policy of Argentina
does not necessarily indicate sym-
pathy with the Axis. Aside from
Great Britain and the United
States, popular sympathy is with
Argentina, based on the concept
that Argentina is the defender of
Latin American sovereignty. On
the surface, our Good Neighbor
Policy has been valid. On the
other hand, we have intervened by
furthering the sort of government
we want in certain countries by
the recognition of certain ones
and the refusal to recognize oth-
ers.
"The case in Bolivia is even more
complicated," according to Mr.
Jones. It is a very poor nation
and its economic sufficiency is al-
most entirely dependent on the
export of tin to the United States.
Because of this situation, Bolivia
is almost completely at the mercy
of America.
The situation is far different
from what it was two years ago.
At that time we were dependent
on those Latin American coun-
tries for their products. When
we yvere comparatively weak,
LatinvAmerica was sympathetic
toward usTbiit now "we are losing
sympathy because we have gained
strength," said Mr. Jones.
Alumnae Issue
This special issue has been
prepared by the College News
Board in conjunction with the
Alumnae Association. It goes
to 5,500 alumnae in an attempt
to compensate for alumnae re-
unions which will not be held
this year.
Hutzler, Harriman, Borden
Show Individual Talent
In Dances
By April Oursler, '46
Wyndham Garden, May 11.�
Careful character interpretation in
combination with spontaneously
graceful dancing gave the Dance
�Club's performance of the dance-
play, Rodrigo, an effectiveness and
charm distinguishing it from last
year's production.
The music and the story, a
Chinese fairy-tale, both written by
Hans Schumann, the club's accom-
panist, lent themselves extremely
well to the pantomimic tenor of the
dancing. Rodrigo, a gentleman
bandit, who has been tempted to
robbery by the devil, is in love
with Louise, who knows nothing
of his evil ways. Her discovery
of this, and the curse of a tooth-
ache laid on Rodrigo by the angry
gods, form the climax of the story.
The long tragic ending, almost
operatic in pattern, is concerned
with the Village Idiot's jealous at-
tack on Rodrigo, Louise's death
Continued on Page 8
Jobs Using Spanish
Discussed by James
Common Room, May 12. Concha
Romero James, chief of the divi-
sion of intellectual cooperation of
the Pan-American Union, spoke
concerning Vocations Using Span-
ish on Friday. She discussed po-
sitions from two points of view,
those in which the language is the
main requisite, and those in which
it is an accessory tool.
With Spanish as a main requis-
ite, many positions, particularly
teaching, necessitate graduate
work. In the fields of interpreting
and translating, opportunities are
scarce, although college graduates
can do work in the abstracting of
reports and other material.
With the language as a tool, par-
ticularly as a strong minor to a
more useful major, prospects are
more encouraging. Economics ma-
jors can find work dealing with
documents and reports in the de-
partments of Commerce, Agricul-
ture, and State. There are many
opportunities in the Department
of Public Health, Sra. James said,
for those knowing any science, and
there is work in the social service
line with the racial minorities
here.
Red Cross Gives
Authority to BM
For Campus Unit
First College Unit Offers
Variety of Activities
To Students
Specially contributed by
Mary Kay Snyder, '46 Chairman
of the Bryn Mawr Red Cross Unit
Bryn Mawr College has receiv-
ed a charter from the National
Red Cross which authorizes the
establishment of a Red Cross
Unit on campus, directly subor-
dinate to the Ardmore Branch. A
War Alliance Committee headed
by Mary Kay Snyder, '46, with
Helen Gilbert, '46, as Secretary
and Doris Emerson, '46, as Pub-
licity Manager, is now plannng
the Unit's organization.
The existence of the Unit will
be a challenge to the entire stud-
ent body. For it will be success-
ful only if next year every stu-
dent conscientiously pledges a
definite number of hours per week
to one of the war-essential activi-
ties offered, and faithfully con-
tinues in the training or service
she has selected.
The program of activities train-
ing to be instituted next October
is still tentative, but will certain-
ly be varied and vital enough to
claim a share of everyone's time.
Anne Borum, '46, will arrange
classes for those who wish to be-
come Nurses' Aides. There will
be theoretical study on campus
under a qualified instructor fol-
lowed by the practical training
and service in Philadelphia hos-
pitals (and Bryn Mawr Hospital
possibly).
It is probable that many who
will not feel suited to Nurses' Aide
work will wish to help in bringing
entertainment and comfort to
convalescents � reading, writing
letters, and receiving visitors,�
in the role of "Junior Grey Lad-
ies". The short period of requir-
ed training for this Hospital and
Receration service can be com-
pleted in part of the first semes-
ter, and thereafter the trained
girls will be assigned to positions
of service in Philadelphia and on
the Main Line. Plans for the
Canteen Course, the prerequisite
for assistants in hospital or can-
teen kitchens will be supervised
by Gwendolyn Leege, J46. It is
important to realize that positions
of service in hospitals are not
open to us�under ordinary con-
Continued on page 6
Harvard, Bryn Mawr
To Join for Concert
The Bryn Mawr College Choir,
in its first concert since 1940, with
any college other than Haverford,
will present a joint recital with
Harvard in Goodhart, the evening
of June third.
The recently enlarged choir, un-
der the direction of Miss Lorna
Cooke, and the Harvard Glee
Club, under Mr. G. Wallace Wood-
worth, will include both religious
and secular music in what is
hoped to be the first in an annual
series of joint programs.
Devoting the first half of the
evening to religious music, the
combined groups will sing two
Baroque duets, * three motets and
Continued on Pa*e 8
*%

The college NeWs
VOL. XL, NO. 26
ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1944
Coj yrif hi, Truat. i � of
Bryn M.w. Coll,,. 1944
PRICE 10 CENTS
War Bond Drive
Launched to Pay
Debt on Wyndham
Home Built by Quakeress
Purchased by College
During 1925
In 1796, Patience Morgan, "a
thrifty Quakeress," built Wynd-
ham. Years later, Dr. Joseph
Taylor, looking for suitable sur-
roundings and an advantageous
site for the new Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, chose the hilltops and slopes
to the west. There Bryn Mawr
has grown up for fifty-nine years
with two generations of students
taking the gracious old place
across the way for granted.
Suddenly, in the summer of
1925, Wyndham was offered for
sale. The Directors were faced
with the prospect of having the
place fall into the hands of a
real estate developer who had
rather wild ideas for the property,
including something which sounds
Tather like a housing development
to lure people away from the
streets of Philadelphia. Rows and
rows of little houses would have
faced Pembroke and Rockefeller,
with cars, screaming children,
garbage trucks, and broken toys
adding to the melee. Gone would
have been the dance club produc-
tions, the Senior garden party,
the picnics and the numerous teas
in the pleasant setting of Wynd-
ham Garden; gone, too, would have
been the ideal home for the French
House.
This was not all. Enterprising
real estate developers had other
ideas. They proposed to build a
restaurant where the college
greenhouse now stands, and,
worse, an open-air movie house
near it, and what might have ac-
Conttnued on page 3
New Literary Effort
Proves Creative Art
Not Dead on Campus
Specially Contributed by
--, Virginia Grace, '44
This coming week will record
the launching of a new Bryn
Mawr magazine. It has been in-
cubating in the minds of five un-
daunted Freshmen, who will tell
you vehemently, and now we must
believe them, that creative art on
campus is not dead. A sceptical
student body has been reading a
sober but somewhat perfunctory
funeral service over the flickering
Lantern, but it may now be in-
formed that the challenge it threw
out for a new and representative
periodical has found its mark. If
every healthy display of discon-
tent could produce such prompt
and unequivocal results, any signs
of ferment would be heartily wel-
comed.
The new magazine bears on its
cover the words The Title, sig-
nifying that the space is reserved
for a permanent name to be
chosen by its circulating public.
Mr. W. H. Auden has sent his
own ammunition in the form of
a poem entitled In War Time, com-
posed especially for The Title's
maiden issue. Mr. Lattimore's
superb translation of two Aeschy-
lean speeches brings the beauty of
ancient literature into the range
of modern study.
Hester Corner contributes a
provocative piece entitled Monu-
ments and Memorials of Balti-
more, a poem showing an amazing
facility of expression. Mr. Huf-
fington, by Jocelyn Kingsbury, is
a masterful sketch of the quiet
sort of crisis that lingers longest
in one's memory. It is written
with an easy assurance and with
acute sensitivity to dramatic tim-
ing as well as to mood and sound.
"Passage to India" carries out
Continued on Page 7
Mademoiselle, Vogue Pass by Bryn Moron's
Originality in the Designing of College Fashions
Life has its features on high
school fashions. Mademoiselle and
Vogue talk lovingly of the newest
things in college clothes�but
they've all passed us by. And now
is the time for us to assert our-
selves: What the well-dressed
Bryn Moron is wearing, or, kow
to get dressed so they'll let you
into the dining room without your
being uncomfortable.
To begin with, originality may
be the keynote of some campuses,
but we manage to remain individ-
ual by being monotonous. 'The
popularity of the Maids' Bureau
pinafores has reached such propor-
tions that no longer do two owners
of the same creation slink behind
the nearest cherry tree rather
than meet each other jumper to
jumper. Whole bevies of identi-
cally dressed classmates trail up
to Taylor arm in arm�but, in the
words of Mr. Patterson, the mass
of material varies as the densities
of the owners.
The latest costume for labside
wear consists of blue jeans, cut off
at the knees, the after-effects of
such an operation being truly sig-
nificant in relation to character
study. All types of half-hitch
britches result, from those volum-
inous pleated affairs that billow
in the breeze, to the rather snug
ones that couldn't ripple in a hur-
ricane. With them, in all cases,
are featured thigh-length men's
shirts�a pre-war fashion which,
rather than being lessened by the
war-time material conservation
act, has been increased as we rob
our soldier's civilian wmrdTobe.
Moccasins, which have long since
taken the place of dirty saddle
shoes, are worn with ingenious
patriotic patches of white adhesive
tape or with open toes and bow-
tied bandages to diminish the flap-
�M^of disembodied soles. The
infliMice of the Good Neighbor
policy is evident with the appear-
ance of non-rationed espadrilles
and huaraches, worn with Mexican
skirts and blouses. Even Tahitian
and Hawaiian touches appear,
blazing forth in irregular bursts
of color, with blouses tied in a
midriff knot above the waist for
greater sun exposure.
L85 skirts, on the other hand,
may be designed for pencil-slim
hips, but we manage a charming
bulging effect by wearing them
over shorts or rolled slacks. And
if you've noticed a strip-tease ses-
sion in the halls in the evening, it
merely means *hat dinner's over,
and we can uncover the uniforms
of a strictly utilitarian and com-
fortable life.
We are neater now, though.
Sweaters are not quite the man-
sized editions of a few years ago,
even if none of us are the Lana
Turner type. Or maybe it's just
that we'd rather wear the shirts�
thigh-length.
Eleanor Borden, '46" as Louise, and Esterlee Hutzler, '45 as
Kodrigo, dancing in one of the opening scenes of the play.
Expressive Character Interpretations
Mark Dance Portrayal of 'Rodrigo'
Close Brazilian Ties
Seen by Paul Jones
Common Room, May 14. Paul
Jones, chief advisor to Nelson
Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-
American Affairs, spoke on the
present situation in Latin Amer-
ica, dwelling chiefly on Bolivia
and the Argentine.
Argentina, the most advanced
of the Latin American countries
in economic, political, and social
development, presents a "compli-
cated situation." United States'
public opinion usually dismisses
Argentina as a fascist nation in-
tent on extending the rule of Hit-
ler, but Mr. Jones attributed this
to a misapprehension built on a
difference of political objectives in
the two countries. The present
isolationist policy of Argentina
does not necessarily indicate sym-
pathy with the Axis. Aside from
Great Britain and the United
States, popular sympathy is with
Argentina, based on the concept
that Argentina is the defender of
Latin American sovereignty. On
the surface, our Good Neighbor
Policy has been valid. On the
other hand, we have intervened by
furthering the sort of government
we want in certain countries by
the recognition of certain ones
and the refusal to recognize oth-
ers.
"The case in Bolivia is even more
complicated," according to Mr.
Jones. It is a very poor nation
and its economic sufficiency is al-
most entirely dependent on the
export of tin to the United States.
Because of this situation, Bolivia
is almost completely at the mercy
of America.
The situation is far different
from what it was two years ago.
At that time we were dependent
on those Latin American coun-
tries for their products. When
we yvere comparatively weak,
LatinvAmerica was sympathetic
toward usTbiit now "we are losing
sympathy because we have gained
strength," said Mr. Jones.
Alumnae Issue
This special issue has been
prepared by the College News
Board in conjunction with the
Alumnae Association. It goes
to 5,500 alumnae in an attempt
to compensate for alumnae re-
unions which will not be held
this year.
Hutzler, Harriman, Borden
Show Individual Talent
In Dances
By April Oursler, '46
Wyndham Garden, May 11.�
Careful character interpretation in
combination with spontaneously
graceful dancing gave the Dance
�Club's performance of the dance-
play, Rodrigo, an effectiveness and
charm distinguishing it from last
year's production.
The music and the story, a
Chinese fairy-tale, both written by
Hans Schumann, the club's accom-
panist, lent themselves extremely
well to the pantomimic tenor of the
dancing. Rodrigo, a gentleman
bandit, who has been tempted to
robbery by the devil, is in love
with Louise, who knows nothing
of his evil ways. Her discovery
of this, and the curse of a tooth-
ache laid on Rodrigo by the angry
gods, form the climax of the story.
The long tragic ending, almost
operatic in pattern, is concerned
with the Village Idiot's jealous at-
tack on Rodrigo, Louise's death
Continued on Page 8
Jobs Using Spanish
Discussed by James
Common Room, May 12. Concha
Romero James, chief of the divi-
sion of intellectual cooperation of
the Pan-American Union, spoke
concerning Vocations Using Span-
ish on Friday. She discussed po-
sitions from two points of view,
those in which the language is the
main requisite, and those in which
it is an accessory tool.
With Spanish as a main requis-
ite, many positions, particularly
teaching, necessitate graduate
work. In the fields of interpreting
and translating, opportunities are
scarce, although college graduates
can do work in the abstracting of
reports and other material.
With the language as a tool, par-
ticularly as a strong minor to a
more useful major, prospects are
more encouraging. Economics ma-
jors can find work dealing with
documents and reports in the de-
partments of Commerce, Agricul-
ture, and State. There are many
opportunities in the Department
of Public Health, Sra. James said,
for those knowing any science, and
there is work in the social service
line with the racial minorities
here.
Red Cross Gives
Authority to BM
For Campus Unit
First College Unit Offers
Variety of Activities
To Students
Specially contributed by
Mary Kay Snyder, '46 Chairman
of the Bryn Mawr Red Cross Unit
Bryn Mawr College has receiv-
ed a charter from the National
Red Cross which authorizes the
establishment of a Red Cross
Unit on campus, directly subor-
dinate to the Ardmore Branch. A
War Alliance Committee headed
by Mary Kay Snyder, '46, with
Helen Gilbert, '46, as Secretary
and Doris Emerson, '46, as Pub-
licity Manager, is now plannng
the Unit's organization.
The existence of the Unit will
be a challenge to the entire stud-
ent body. For it will be success-
ful only if next year every stu-
dent conscientiously pledges a
definite number of hours per week
to one of the war-essential activi-
ties offered, and faithfully con-
tinues in the training or service
she has selected.
The program of activities train-
ing to be instituted next October
is still tentative, but will certain-
ly be varied and vital enough to
claim a share of everyone's time.
Anne Borum, '46, will arrange
classes for those who wish to be-
come Nurses' Aides. There will
be theoretical study on campus
under a qualified instructor fol-
lowed by the practical training
and service in Philadelphia hos-
pitals (and Bryn Mawr Hospital
possibly).
It is probable that many who
will not feel suited to Nurses' Aide
work will wish to help in bringing
entertainment and comfort to
convalescents � reading, writing
letters, and receiving visitors,�
in the role of "Junior Grey Lad-
ies". The short period of requir-
ed training for this Hospital and
Receration service can be com-
pleted in part of the first semes-
ter, and thereafter the trained
girls will be assigned to positions
of service in Philadelphia and on
the Main Line. Plans for the
Canteen Course, the prerequisite
for assistants in hospital or can-
teen kitchens will be supervised
by Gwendolyn Leege, J46. It is
important to realize that positions
of service in hospitals are not
open to us�under ordinary con-
Continued on page 6
Harvard, Bryn Mawr
To Join for Concert
The Bryn Mawr College Choir,
in its first concert since 1940, with
any college other than Haverford,
will present a joint recital with
Harvard in Goodhart, the evening
of June third.
The recently enlarged choir, un-
der the direction of Miss Lorna
Cooke, and the Harvard Glee
Club, under Mr. G. Wallace Wood-
worth, will include both religious
and secular music in what is
hoped to be the first in an annual
series of joint programs.
Devoting the first half of the
evening to religious music, the
combined groups will sing two
Baroque duets, * three motets and
Continued on Pa*e 8
*%